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Event<br />

<strong>body</strong> <strong>count</strong><br />

Estimated Death Toll<br />

(>10,000)<br />

Event Type<br />

Belligerent<br />

Civilization<br />

Righteous Army Uprising, Korea (1907-12) 18,000 War Buddhist<br />

Transvaal Revolt (1880-81) 18,000 War Christian<br />

Paris Commune (1871) 17,000-23,000 Democide Christian<br />

Sikh Uprising (1982-91) 16,000-20,000 Civil War Indic<br />

Iran under the Pahlevis (1953-1979) 16,000 Democide <strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Anglo-Burmese War (1823-1826) 15,000-20,000 War Christian<br />

War of Italian Unification (1859) 15,000-22,500 Civil War Christian<br />

Polish Insurrection (1830-32) 15,000-21,000 War Christian<br />

Guinea-Bissau War of Independence<br />

(1963-1974)<br />

15,000 War Christian<br />

Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) 15,000 War Buddhist, Sinic<br />

Christian-Druze Wars, Lebanon (1860) 15,000 Civil War Christian, Unclassified<br />

War of the Pacific (1879–1884) 14,000 – 55,000 War Christian<br />

Hungarian Insurrection (1703-1711) 14,000-43,000 War Christian<br />

Battle of Walaya (633) 14,000-22,000 War <strong>Islamic</strong><br />

South Africa under Apartheid 14,000-19,000 Democide Christian<br />

Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) 14,000-20,000 War Christian, <strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Mexican-American War (1846-48) 13,000-49,000 War Christian<br />

Namibia Civil War 13,000-20,000 Civil War Christian<br />

South Yemen Civil War (1986) 13,000 Civil War <strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Bouganville Revolt, Papua New Guinea<br />

(1989-98)<br />

13,000 Civil War Christian<br />

Czechoslovakia under Communism 13,000-60,000 Democide Antitheist<br />

Nepal Civil War (1996-2006) 12,700 Civil War Indic<br />

Sino-French War (1884-85) 12,000 War Christian<br />

Battle of Poitiers (732) 12,000 War <strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Ottoman Invasion of Persia (1727) 12,000 War <strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Batavia Massacres (1740) 10,000-12,000 Civil War Christian<br />

Israeli War of Independence 12,000-19,000 War Unclassified,<br />

<strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Yom Kippur War (1973) 11,500-16,000 War <strong>Islamic</strong>, Christian<br />

Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) 11,053 War Christian, <strong>Islamic</strong><br />

Madagascar Revolt (1947) 11,000-60,000 Civil War Christian<br />

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